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Essays & reportage Opening the windows in a stuffy room Ken Inglis 26 September 2018 The influential fortnightly magazine Nation was launched in Sydney sixty years ago today. In this essay first published in 1989, one of its best-known contributors… Essays & reportage The universities at the end of the universe Robbie Robertson 24 September 2018 The Ramsay Centre is still seeking a home for its Western civilisation course, but the concept itself doesn’t stand up to scrutiny Correspondents Speakers great and small Graeme Dobell 13 September 2018 Are America and Australia two allies separated by a common language? Essays & reportage Keeping company: encountering the Fairfax Media archive Bridget Griffen-Foley 27 August 2018 While Fairfax’s future seems likely to be in the hands of Nine, much of its past has recently been made accessible at the State Library of New South Wales. At a symposium…

Books & arts Remembering the Dunera Peter Mares 13 July 2018 Books | A shared experience of wartime internment created an enduring “fictive kinship” Books & arts The people who forgot Bronwyn Carlson 6 July 2018 Books | Mark McKenna points to an alternative future for Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, in his Quarterly Essay Books & arts Privacy by design Megan Richardson 4 July 2018 Books | Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite From the archive Speaking into the silence Drusilla Modjeska 2 July 2018 Two compelling works of hybrid non-fiction explore how the past lives on in the present

Essays & reportage Ancestors’ words Anna Haebich, Darryl Kickett and Margaret Culbong 30 May 2018 Extract | A research project is exploring an extraordinary trove of Nyungar letters in Western Australia’s Aboriginal archive Correspondents How citizens became aliens David Hayes 29 May 2018 The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe Essays & reportage When Chifley met Nehru, and the Commonwealth’s transformation began David Fettling 18 April 2018 The Australian prime minister knew that any attempt to resurrect the old British Empire in Asia was doomed to failure International The Commonwealth’s secret bomb Nic Maclellan 18 April 2018 This month’s CHOGM coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of a multi-megaton British nuclear test in the Pacific, covertly supported by Australia and other Commonwealth members